Wild asparagus- how cool! I never really tried to imagine how it grew wild (hanging off a palm tree like a hand of bananas, perhaps? or shooting back into the ground like a peanut?); should have been obvious that it was a grass.

In Korea, the big thing that people gather wild is kelp. "Just going out to pick some greens for dinner, dear,"...SPLASH!

@maja - hello down there in NZ! wavesthanks for reading. there were a lot of small towns so i am not 100% certain but i think it was Istarska. There between Sečovlje and Umag. There is a real estate company called Tingle and you keep walking past it towards the big camping ground.

I googled a bit and I think the place is called Savudrija. It looks lovely! I lived in a place 20km south of there for two months a couple of years ago (after running away from my Slovene mother-in-law...ha!) and never visited this place. Now it's so, so far away!